Rambling On ⭐️ DZ Action News #714 (29 June – 5 July 2026)

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Another busy week at the DZ saw Students, Tandems, B-Rels, and Fun Jumpers enjoying plenty of action across the Drop Zone.

Huge congratulations to Korshyn, who completed the AFF Course with Stage 9 this week! We also celebrated Elijah, Robert, and Matt receiving their A-Certificates, while Scott achieved his Head Up Crest.

Fun jumpers had a full weekend too, with FUNtastic Friday, and Beginner Angles with Josh Arndt and Tom Roberts, and another excellent Canopy Course with Adrian Seemann.

Cheers to everyone who made it out, helped out, jumped in, or just brought the good vibes. Here’s to blue skies ahead…

Catch you in freefall,
The Ramblers Crew 🪂


Drop Zone Action

🏁 First Jump Course – On Saturday 4 July, Bill welcomed Tallon, Kodi, and Jack to the First Jump Course, while Levi started on a 15 Jump Package. There was no time to waste, with all four completing AFF Stage 1 the very same day. Let the fun begin!

Student Progression – Welcome to the skies to Tallon, Jack, Kodi, and Levi, who all completed AFF Stage 1. A special mention also goes to Tim C., who got off to a flying start by powering through AFF Stages 1 to 7 in his first week.

Continuing students Daniel progressed through Stages 2 and 3, Caleb completed Stages 3 to 5, Alex H. worked through Stages 4 and 5, Alex M. completed Stages 3 to 6, and Tim Y. reached Stages 5 to 7.

Congratulations to Korshyn, who completed Stages 3 to 9 to finish the AFF Course. Well done!

Thanks to our Instructors for looking after the students and keeping everyone safe in freefall and under canopy, Toddy, Alex, Kellie, Wayne, Rebecca, Robin, Adrian, and Shelby.

AFF Students Photo Album of the week

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Tandem Skydivers

This week Ruby and Sienna celebrated with a Twin Tandem adventure, while Zakharius marked his 18th birthday with a leap of faith. Also taking to the skies were Tianna, Charlize, Prasad, and Jason.

Big cheers to those who took the Video/Photo Package to capture that unforgettable first jump! And an extra thanks to everyone who left reviews — your words inspire the next generation of skydivers.

Thanks to Tandem Masters Adrian, Robin, and Ben S. for getting everyone safely into the sky and back again. Special thanks to Toddy for flying outside camera and capturing those incredible extra angles from freefall.

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B-Rels, Coach & Fun Jumps

Coach and B-Rel jumps this week were completed by Saffron (B-Rels 2 and 3), Carlos, Kaylie, Samantha, Jake (B-Rel 4), Jack H. (B-Rel 2), Elijah (B-Rels 1 and 2), and Ryan (B-Rels 2 to 4), all continuing to build experience towards their next skydiving goals.

Thanks to our coaches Kellie, Jake, Alex, and Wayne for helping everyone progress safely.

Fun Jumpers had another action-packed weekend, kicking off with FUNtastic Friday before Josh Arndt and Tom Roberts also hosted a Beginner Angles day on Saturday, helping newer angle flyers develop solid skills and confidence. At the same time, Adrian Seemann ran another successful Canopy Course.

Funtastic Friday & Angle Camp Recap

“Funtastic Friday: Killer event, good turnout. A lot of people getting beginner angle briefings and giving it a crack. Myself and Tom did 5 jumps each. Was A license and above pretty early in the morning and we still had enough people to fill the caravan. A lot of people stayed and enjoyed the snags, Nordcamp was in his loft and missed out.

Angle camp: Estelle, Andrew and Conrad all got their level 1 angles signed off, great progression by all. A lot of people in general are hungry for beginner angles so will try to run these camps more regularly. Safe jump and lots of learning by all.”

Josh

Canopy Course with Adrian Seemann (4-5 July)

“The participants were Ellen, Jace, Chris, Kim, Steve and Stephen. We started the course with a theory session regarding mindset and attitude towards canopy piloting, before we started with the jumps. The participants got six jumps in on day one and all landings were individually debriefed. On day two some fog in the morning delayed the start a little bit but then the participants got two jumps before the wind picked up around lunch time. Once the wind had picked up we did two more theory seminars, one on progressing to faster equipment and another one on decision altitudes. We did run the event parallel with Josh’s and Toms angle camp, which worked very well.”

Adrian

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Tom C. wrote on Monday 29 June: “Had a great time yesterday and I look forward to doing some more jumps in the future.”

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See ya,

Macca and Team Ramblers.


DZ Flashback – Blast From The Past

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And visit our Ramblers history webpage for more info…

Today I went flying for the first time in a long time, as I had a stroke 3 and a bit years ago. Just wanted say thank u Ramblers for bringing me a great day and a bit of normality back in my life. Again I would like to thank all the people that truly made my day and the special man, that looked after me. It won't be my last time out there. And would recommend this experience to anyone. Again thanks to everybody involved.

Robert Young.

“truly made my day…” – by Robin Young

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